🗞 PwC Pioneers as OpenAI's Premier Reseller, Empowering Employees and Clients with Cutting-Edge AI

🔎 The Latest on the AI Frontier:

• PwC Partners with OpenAI, Becoming First Reseller and Top Enterprise User 🤝

• OpenAI CEO and Husband Pledge Half Their Wealth to Charity 💰

• Microsoft Introduces AI Copilot to Telegram Messaging App 🤖

• Google's AI Overviews: Concise Summaries with Occasional Mistakes 🤔

• AI-Generated Deepfake Nudes Cause Havoc in Schools 😠

• Bilingual AI Brain Implant Helps Stroke Survivor Communicate 🧠

• Hollywood Urged to Embrace AI as Creative Tool Despite Threats 🎨

🤝 PwC inks groundbreaking deal to become OpenAI's first reseller and largest enterprise user. Read More

• PwC's U.S. and U.K. firms will offer ChatGPT Enterprise, giving over 100,000 employees and clients access to the latest OpenAI tools.

• The agreement marks OpenAI's first resale model for its popular AI products as the company seeks new revenue streams.

• PwC's $1 billion investment in AI capabilities over three years aligns with this partnership, having already identified over 3,000 internal use cases across industries.

💰 OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and his husband, Oliver Mulherin, pledge to donate half their wealth to charity, joining the Giving Pledge campaign. Read More

• Altman's net worth, estimated at $2 billion, comes from several startup investments rather than OpenAI, including Helion Energy, Retro Biosciences, and Reddit.

• The couple's donation promise is a moral commitment and not legally binding, with the exact amount and recipient organizations yet to be disclosed.

• The Giving Pledge, founded by Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, and Melinda French Gates, encourages the world's elite to donate at least half their fortunes to philanthropic causes within their lifetimes or through their wills, aiming to shift social norms and inspire smarter giving. However, like all Giving Pledge vows, the moral commitment is not legally binding.

🤖 Microsoft introduces Copilot AI into Telegram messaging app as part of 'copilot-for-social' initiative. Read More

• Telegram users in the US and UK can now experience Copilot firsthand by searching for '@CopilotOfficialBot', with a query limit of 30 questions per day.

• Phone number verification is required to enable Copilot, likely to prevent EU users from accessing it due to stricter data regulations and laws in the region.

• While some users may find the AI integration exciting, others may have trust issues with an AI having access to their messaging app, raising concerns about the increasing ubiquity of generative AI chatbots.

🤔 Google's AI Overviews feature aims to provide concise summaries of search results, but occasional mistakes raise concerns about its reliability. Read More

• AI Overviews has provided inaccurate information, such as suggesting adding glue to pizza or eating rocks daily, based on flawed data from online sources like Reddit and The Onion.

• These mistakes, known as AI hallucinations, result from issues with training data, algorithms, or context misinterpretation, and pose a threat to Google's reputation as it competes in the generative AI era. The search engine that debuted in 1998 controls about 86% of the market.

• While AI Overviews often provides accurate information, the occasional errors underscore the importance of fact-checking and seeking second opinions, potentially impacting user trust and traffic to websites featured in search results.

😠 AI-generated deepfake nudes of students and educators are becoming disturbingly common in schools, causing real damage and varying disciplinary responses. Read More

• 20 states have passed laws penalizing nonconsensual AI-generated pornographic materials, but how schools handle incidents differs by state, with some not mandated to report to law enforcement.

• A new federal Title IX rule requires schools to address online sex-based harassment, including "nonconsensual distribution of intimate images that have been altered or generated by AI technologies," if it creates a hostile environment.

• States like Indiana, Florida, and Washington have updated revenge porn laws to include AI-generated content, but enforcement in schools remains unclear, prompting calls for federal action and guidance from the Department of Education to help navigate these situations.

🧠 Scientists develop a groundbreaking bilingual AI brain implant that enables a paralyzed stroke survivor to communicate in Spanish and English for the first time. Read More

• The University of California, San Francisco researchers created a decoding system that turns brain activity into sentences in both languages, displayed on a screen.

• Using an AI neural network, the implant was trained to decode words based on brain activity produced when the man, Pancho, attempted to articulate them, allowing him to participate in bilingual conversations.

• The study demonstrates the feasibility of a bilingual speech neuroprosthesis and its potential to restore more natural communication for bilingual individuals with paralysis.

🎨 Hollywood must harness AI as a creative tool rather than solely fighting it, despite the technology's potential threats to artists' livelihoods. Read More

• AI poses a risk to human creativity and innovation, as machines can create faster and better than humans, potentially stripping away fundamental traits like curiosity, imagination, and intuition.

• The creative community and tech industry should start from a place of mutual respect, recognizing that contributions on all sides deserve compensatory value and consent for use.

• Finding ways to use AI to enhance human creativity is the best path forward, as the alternative is AI creating without human involvement, potentially leading to an existential threat to humanity's unique creative abilities.

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